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Workers of the World Unite!
The Communist International
Organ of the Executive Committee of the Communist International
Published once a month in English, Russian, German, French, Chinese and Spanish
Volume 13, 1936



USA edition of 1936 CI, published in New York City by the CPUSA.

Volume 13, 1936 for the Entire Year
PDFs of Issues


Link to the British version of CI for this year


Link to the full 1936 tables of contents in Word format
Link to the Index for the this run of CI in PDF format

Number 1, January 1936

3 Dimitroff’s Victory at Leipzig was a Blow at Thaelmann’s Jailers
10 Teach the Masses - Learn from the Masses
18 There are no Grounds for Self-Satisfaction – O. Kuusinen
33 Urgent Problems Facing the Communist Party of Germany – M. Ercoli
47 You Cannot Sit Between Two Stools O STOOLS – K. Gottwald
53 The General Elections in Great Britain – Harry Pollitt
67 The Maiden Speech of William Gallacher, M.P.
73 From the Letter of an English Comrade on the General Elections
77 The Stalinist School of Revolutionary Struggle for Victory of Bolshevism

Documents:
84 Greetings to Comrade Dimitroff from the Fourth Conference of the C.P. of Germany
85 The Expulsion of Torgler from the Communist Party of Germany
86 The Behavior of Comrades Taney and Popov at the Leipzig Trial
88 Our Behavior at the Leipzig Trial [Declaration by B. Popov and V. Taney]
90 Decision of the C.C. of theC.P of Bulgaria on the Declaration of Comrades Popov and Taney

Reviews:
93 Review of the “Daily Worker” (U.S.) for October, 1935 – R.
101 England, Italy, Ethiopia – Richard

China At Bay Special Supplement to the Communist International January 1936

(comments by Marty Goodman, Director of the Riazanov Library digital archive project) Following the Number 1 January 1936 issue is a Special Supplement to the Communist International titled (at least in the version printed in Great Britain) “China at Bay”.

I was able to obtain a scan of the British-printed version of this pamphlet, held by the Special Collections Library of the University of California at Riverside. For a fee, they scanned for me their copy. I spent a week enhancing the digital images of that scan.

Judging from entries in the Index for 1936 USA version CI, it appears this pamphlet / booklet was also published in the US (in NY City by the CP USA). It also appears that the US printed version was produced on smaller size paper, and/or with large type fonts, so that it took up more pages to present the same material.

Page numbers in the table of contents, below, are those of the British version:

1. I. Wan Ming: The Struggle for the Anti-Imperialist United Front and the
Immediate Tasks of the C.P. of China page 5
2. Shee Pin: A Heroic Trek page 16
3. Siao Geh: The Anti-Imperialist Struggle in the Kuomintang Regions of China page 28
4. Li Huan: The Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army of China as it is page 37
5 . Yan Sun: The Anti-Imperialist United Front in Manchuria page 43
6. Van Deh: Imperialist Contradictions in the Far East 50
Leaders of the Chinese Soviets and the Chinese Red Army:
7. Mao Tse-dun-Leader of the Toiling People of China page 57
8. Chu De-Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Red Army page 62
9. Fan Chi-min-Hero of the Chinese People 68
10. The Last Testament of Comrade Fan Chi-min, written before his Execution page 72

Documents:
11. Manifesto to the Whole People of China concerning resistance to Japan and the Salvation of the Fatherland p73
12. Manifesto to the Manchurian People concerning the events in North China page 77
13. The Address of the Revolutionary Military Council of the Red Army of
China to the Abyssinian People page 80
Published in London by Modern Books


Number 2, February 1936

239 The International Situation, The Growing War Menace and the Soviet Policy – V. Molotov
248 The Legal System of German Fascism - Reply to Herr Ribbentrop – G. Dimitroff
253 The Sixtieth Birthday of the Clorious Proletarian Fighter - Wilhelm Pieck
261 The International Proletariat is Collecting its Forces
268 For the Correct Carrying Out of the Line of the Seventh Congress – K. Gottwald
289 The Congress of the Communist Party of France – Maurice Thorez
300 Social Credit and the Experiences of the Canadian Communists – John Porter
310 What Course are you Steering, Otto Bauer? – Peter Viden
320 Soukup and Stivim, Strike Breakers of the United Front of the International Proletariat – V. K.
326 Rudolph Claus
331 The Stakhanov Movement and our Enemies – A. Rubines
347 In Memoriam - Comrade Shapuriji Saklatvala by Harry Pollitt

Book Reviews:
351 The Stakhanov Movement as dealt with by the Communist Press – Rotor
361 The Webbs’ Book on the Soviet Union – R. Palme Dutt


Number 3, March 1936

375 For Leninist-Stalinist Cadres
388 The Danger of Fascism and the Struggle of the Communist Party of France – Maurice Thorez
414 Some Questions Concerning the Policy of Developing Party Cadres – A. Kraevsky
425 Kirov - The Life of a Proletarian Leader
437 “Leninists” – E. Fisher
440 Butter and Guns – G. Erenest
444 How Litvinov Finished Off the Knight of the Cheese – L. Antonio
447 On the Road to an Abundance of Products in the U.S.S.R. – A. I. Mikoyan
463 The Eighteenth Anniversary of the Red Army – K. Zelos
474 Concerning the Rude Prav A - Central Organ of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia – V. Kopetsky

Book Review:
480 “New Trends in Socialism” – A. Kronos


Number 4, April 1936

487 Stalin-Howard Interview
494 The Instigator of War in Europe
498 The Victory of the People’s Front in Spain
505 The Results of the Eighth Congress of the Communist Party of France – Andre Marty
518 The Opponents of the United Front in England – J. Campbell
525 The Truth About the Mensheviiks – P. Lang
545 The Fiftieth Birthday of Ernst Thaelmann
547 The Eightieth Birthday of Tom Mann
549 Heroes of the Anti-Fascist Struggle in Italy – Giuseppe Amoretti
559 Roman Rolland
562 Luis Carlos Prestes, Hero of the Brazilian People
567 On the History of the Bolshevik Organizations of Trans-Caucasus during the period of the first Russian Revolution – L. BERIA
583 I. Sirola - In Memoriam

Book Review:
585 A Book on the Italo-Ethiopian War – K. Henry
[This issue features photos of Stalin and of Thalemann, and line drawn sketches of Antonio Gramci, Umberto Terracinni, and M. Ercoli.]


Number 5, May 1936

591 May Day Appeal of the Communist International
596 The Struggle to Maintain Peace
607 Two Policies - Two Results
614 Against the Instigators of War and Those who Abet Them – Harry Pollitt
624 The Industrial Union Bloc in the American Federation of Labor – William Z. Foster
636 The German People Want Peace -Hitler wants war – E. Fisher
661 Ernst Thaelmann – Wilhelm Pieck
670 The Comrades in arms of Thaelmann – C. Bobrovskaya
678 The Victory of the National Policy of Lenin and Stalin – Laurence Beria
695 Dimitroff “Before the Fascist Court” – A. Sergeyev
706 A Book About Stalin – S. Gopner
715 In Memorium - Fritz Heckert


Number 6, June 1936

719 The United Front of the Struggle for Peace by Georgi Dimitroff
728 The Front of Peace Against the War Incendiaries
741 The Struggle for the Anti-Japanese People’s Front in China – Wang Ming
752 The Front of Peace and Freedom Against the Fascist Military Clique in Japan – V. Nisikawa
764 Build up a Mighty Front of Freedom and Peace – J. Lenski
774 The Struggle to Carry Through the Line of the Sixth Congress of the Y.C.I. – Raymond Guyot
788 More Agitation, More Propaganda! – E. Fisher
796 The Victory of the People’s Front in France
799 May Day, 1936

801 How Otto Bauer Invents New Theories
804 The “Peace Loving” Howls of Herr Goering – K. Rolph
806 Revolutionary Mongolia and the Lust of Japanese Imperialism – S. Natsov

Book Review:
816 A Book on Communism for the Broad Masses – G. Minword


Number 7, July 1936

823 Constitution of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
840 The International Congress for Peace
847 The Struggle Against the Hitlerites and the Hapsburgs in Austria – P. Viden
854 The Aggression of Japanese Imperialism in China – T. Syao
865 The Southern Direction of Japanese Aggression – J. Berry
877 Alexi Maxim Gorky
879 Leaders of the Spanish Proletariat – L. Sylvia
887 “The Wise French and Foolish Czechs” – E. Fisher
891 Joy – Order – K. Rolph
894 The Constitution of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Socialist State
901 Letters of the Youth of Spain to Georgi Dimitroff
902 B. Popov and V. Taney to Dimitroff and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Bulgaria

Book Reviews:
908 The London Congress of Peace and Frienship with the U.S.S.R. – B. Roberts
912 New Books About the U.S.S.R. Puplished in France – M. Tamar
919 Books Received
[This issue features a photograph of Maxim Gorky]


Number 8, August 1936

923 In Memory of the Late Alexi Maximovich Gorky
941 The Stalinist Constitution of the Socialist State
941 The General Situation France – Andre Marty
956 The Development of the Democratic Revolution in SpainN 956 – J. Hernandez
970 For the People’s Front in England – Harry Pollitt
981 The United Front in Switzerland and its First Successes – Humbert-Droz
993 How the Fascists “Buried” the Class Struggle in Bulgaria – V. Kolarov
1004 Class Battles in Greece – M. Nikis
1012 The Strike Movement in Poland – E. Adamovich
1020 Corrupters of Thomas Must Go, Too – William Gallacher
1026 The Plot of the Enemies of the People against the Franc – E. Varga
1030 The Electoral Defeat in Belgium of the Supporters of Devaluation – E. Varga
1033 The Antikainen Trial – O. Kuusinen
1036 The Care of the Socialist State for the Mother and Child – Friedrich Wolf
1041 The Toilers of the Soviet Union on the Draft of the New Constitution – M. BROWN
1048 The Struggle for Workers’ and Peasants’ Alliances in Spain
1051 The Working Class Movement in England and the Fight for Peace
1054 The Elections in Belgium are the Reply to the Opponents of the United Front
1056 The Intensification of the Struggle for the United Front in Czechoslovakia
1058 The Struggle for Democratic Demands in the Factories of Vienna
1060 The Congress of the Socialist Party of Switzerland 1063 How French Communists Worked During the Election Campaign 1067 Anti-Fascist Leaflets During the Last “Elections” in Germany 1071 The Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Switzerland 1073 The Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Norway 1077 The Tenth Congress of the Communist party of Sweden 1077 The Fourteenth Congress of the Communist Party of Denmark 1079 The Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. in May

Book Reviews:
1082 Pages from the Life of William Gallacher – John Sullivan 1087 Pamphlets on the Stakhanov Movement – M. Tamara 1092 Books Received


Number 9, September 1936

1099 The Peace Front Must Win!
1108 The Struggle Against Fascism is a Struggle for Peace – V. Florin
1118 The Farmer-Labor Party - The People’s Front in the U.S.A. – Earl Browder
1127 Against the Enemies of the People – Dolores Ibarruri
1135 The Draft of the Soviet Constitution and the Fascist Constitution of Poland – J. Dolya
1146 The Draft of the Soviet Constitution and the Constitution of the U.S.A. – Harry Owen
1156 The Real Rulers of Fascist Austria – I. Avar
1165 The Gallant Medzinski is Scared and Tries to Scare Others – Jan
1172 Discussion of the Class Struggle in the “Voelkischer Beobachter” – Weber
1177 Edgar Andre – R. Hammer
1186 The Struggle Against Fascim and the Counter-Revolutionaries in Spain
1189 The Struggle Against the Fascist Putsch
1194 How the Program of the People’s Front is being Fulfilled in France
1199 The Development of the Movement for the International Peace Congress
1202 The Strike and Achievements of the United Front in Belgium
1205 The Movement for Peace - For the People’s Front in Great Britain
1207 The Struggle of the Berlin Workers Against the Capitalist Offensive
1210 The U.S.A. Before the Elections
1214 The Offensive of Reaction in Sweden is the Result of the Sabotage of the United Front
1216 The Congress of the Amsterdam International of Trade Unions
1219 The Ninth Convention of the Communist Party of the United States
1221 On the Eve of the Fifth Congress of the Communist Party of Spain
1224 The Tenth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada
1227 The Congress of the London District of the C.P.G.B.
1229 The Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. in June

Book Reviews:
1231 Agitate for Peace in a New Way! – M. Tamar 1235 The Masters of France - The Feudal Aristocracy in the Banks – Kronos 1239 Books Received


Number 10, October 1936

1243 To Protect Despicable Terrorists is to Help Fascists – Georgi Dimitroff
1247 The Trotsky-Zinoviev Fascist Gang Before the Proletarian Court
1262 All for the Peoples Front, All Through the People’s Front – Maurice Thorez
1280 Urgent Questions for the People’s Front in Poland – J. Lenski
1292 Young People, Join in the Fight to Maintain Peace – A. Kosarev
1303 What is Happening in Spain? – Dolores Ibarruri
1311 Long Live the Spanish People. Long Live the Spanish Democratic Republic. – K. Gottwald
1320 Fascism of Democracy – Andre Marty
1328 The Solidarity Campaign in Aid of the Spanish People
1338 The Fifteenth Anniversary of the Communist Party of China – Georgi Dimitroff
1341 Fifteen Years of Struggle for the Independence and Freedom of the Chinese People – Wang Ming
1361 Reminiscences of the First Congress of the Communist Party of China – Chen Pan-Tsu
1367 An Agent of Fascism – Ernst Fischer
1369 The Olympic Torches in the Hands of the Warmongers – K. Rolph
1372 At the Cradle of a New Fascist Movement – E. F.
1375 Itsikava - Hero of the Japanese People – Okano
1384 The Draft of the New Soviet Constitution as Dealt With in the Communist Press – G. Friedrich
1389 The Struggle Against the New Unemployment Regulations in Great Britain
1391 The Paris Conference on the Right of Asylum
1395 The Election Campaign in the U.S.A.
1398 Decision of the International Control Commission

Book Reviews:
1400 Who Rules in Modern America – E. Yershov
1405 Pamphlets on the International Peace Congress – M. Tamar


Number 11, November 1936

1411 The Nineteenth Anniversary of the October Revolution
1418 Spain in the Struggle Against Fascism
1439 The Lessons of the Trial of the Trotsky Zinoviev Terrorist Center
1458 The People’s Front and the Tasks Facing the Communist Party of France – Maurice Thorez
1472 The Congress of the Warmongers – Wilhelm Florin
1480 To the Aid of the Spanish Fighters! – Maurice Thorez
1484 The Anniversary of the Stakhanov Movement – M. Goldstein
1495 The “Precedent” of the Dreyfus Case – G. Valetsky
1500 Why the Disappointed Demagogue Turns to Fascism – R. Page Arnot
1505 The British Trade Union Congress – R. P. A.
1509 The Elections in Lodz – Yan Dolya
1514 Organizational Problems of the C.P. of France – M. Gitton
1522 The Meeting of the Presidium of the E.C.C.I. in September
1525 Regarding the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Hungary

Book Reviews:
1527 Britain Without Capitalists – P. A.


Number 12, December 1936

1531 Report to the Special Eighth Congress of Soviets on the Draft Constitution of the U.S.S.R. – J. V. Stalin
1554 Report to the Chariman of the Drafting Commission of the Special Eighth Congress of Soviets of the U.S.S.R. – J. v. STALIN
1557 The Constitution of Socialist Democracy
1563 The People’s Front of the Struggle Against Fascism and War – Georgi Dimitroff
1576 For the Victory of the People, for the Program of the People’s Front – Maurice Thorez
1582 The Presidential Elections in the United States – Earl Browder
1592 The Fiftieth Birthday of Andre Marty
1596 In Memory of Buena Ventura Durruti
1600 “No Pasaran” - They Shall Not Pass!
1608 The Offensive Against Suiyuan - The First Fruits of the Japano-German Alliance – L. Lian
1613 “Will You Walk Into My Parlor?” Said the Spider to the Fly – R. P. Arnot
1616 The Nobel Peace Prize for Carl Ossietsky
1618 The Basque Catholics Fight for Democracy and Freedom – Frantz Lang
1623 “Clear Out of Belgium” – C. Gentenaar
1625 The People’s Discussion of the Draft Constitution of The U.S.S.R. – N. Rebrov
1631 The Sixth Congress of the Communist Party of Belgium
1636 Swiss Democracy Threatened by Fascism – K. Mayer
1641 Concerning the Mistakes of the Communist Party of Latvia
1643 The Murder of Edgar Andre and the Fight for Peace 1643
Book Reviews:
1648 Japanese Expansion in the South Sea – A. Geve
1653 Index, Volume XIII, 1936